sadie

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sadie is the moniker of New York City native and Brooklyn-based producer and songwriter Anna Schwab. In May ‘26 she released her debut LP Better Angels, via bloody knuckles, to critical acclaim, with Stereogum naming her “Artist to Watch,” and Consequence dubbing her songwriting “disarming and emotionally potent.” The experimental pop record charts a sonic landscape in shimmering flux — a blend of textural synths, warped guitars, autotune earworms, and lush strings. Better Angels is both a break-up album and a confident reclamation of self at a time of great sea change, each track emerging as its own dream-like vision of what’s to come and what’s already slipping away. 

Classically trained on the piano from the age of 5, sadie began using Ableton to experiment with hyper-pop inspired production in her last year of college. Departing from the “perfectly deconstructed dance-floor fare” (FADER) of her critically-acclaimed EPs, Nowhere and Tides, Better Angels sees sadie finding her way back to live instruments––acoustic guitar, live drums, grand pianos––merging a confluence of acoustic and electronic sounds and influences. These acoustic elements, which sadie re-samples, warps, and distorts,  lend an immediacy and vulnerability to the album, her textural production reflecting the surreal, dream-like quality of time and memory, and the marshy terrain of personal upheaval––letting echo and reverb erode the shoreline of sound, self, and genre. 

sadie celebrated her debut LP release at a sold out show at NYC’s Nightclub 101.